An explosion outside the Kabul airport in Afghanistan is believed to be the result of a suicide bomber.
-- AP's reporting, citing 2 U.S. officials, the count's now 12 U.S. service members were killed in the bombings -- 11 marines and 1 Navy medic.-- The explosion killed 4 U.S. Marines and injured 3 others ... according to the Wall Street Journal.-- According to various reports attributed to a Taliban official ... 13 people have been killed, including children, in the suicide blast at the airport. There was also a second explosion reported at a hotel nearby.
More chaos in Afghanistan -- there was just an explosion outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport that appears to be a suicide attack ... according to U.S. officials. The blast reportedly occurred Thursday at one of the entry gates of the Kabul airport, where crowds of Afghans have been gathering to try to get into the airport., the attack's being called a suicide bomber"complex SBIED attack" with firefight ... and there are Afghan casualties reported.
However, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed the explosion but was not specific as to casualties ... though video from the scene show several people with apparent injuries.
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